The New York Daily News reports that Kellerman disregarded a warning from the big heads at ESPN concerning the Ray Rice situation when he went on ESPN LA’s Mason And Ireland show. On-Air, Kellerman told a story about he and his wife in college. From The Daily News:

The conversation in question took place Monday afternoon, three days after Stephen A. Smith was suspended for saying women should be careful not to “provoke” any incident of abuse. On ESPN-LA, Kellerman told a story going back years when he and his then-girlfriend Erin, who now is his wife, attended a college party.

Kellerman said they both had to much too drink. He said when he tried getting things under control his then-girlfriend slapped him. Kellerman said he slapped her back. He was quick to tell listeners that the woman is now is his wife and they have been happily married for 20 years.

Now just to make it clear, Kellerman wasn’t suspended for the content of his story. He was suspended for not toeing the company line at ESPN, something that some might find a bit concerning.

Kellerman will return to ESPN LA by Thursday, but the whole situation raises a lot of questions. The folks over at Deadspin bring up that it is unclear if the directive that got Kellerman suspended covers talk of the situation itself, the response of the NFL to the situation, or both.

It should also be noted that this directive could be in place to avoid another situation like the one that developed with Stephen A. Smith and not in some effort to quiet any real discussion on the issue. It doesn’t reflect very kindly on practices at ESPN either way.

Leaders:
“Stop talking about this.”
*Brings it up and ends up embarrassing themselves and the entire organization*

It’s the same damn thing. If you have a more recent and better example, by all means share it. But I can’t think of any other time recently that an organization has said “Stop doing this” only to have the rank and file keep doing it embarrassingly so.

The argument isn’t the accuracy of your comment. It’s the intent behind it. There are dozens of examples. You chose that specific one for a specific reason, to incite. Don’t pretend like you didn’t. No different when someone compares something to Hitler or the Nazis.

No I get sensitive when someone brings politics into something where it isn’t mentioned and isn’t relevant. You made that specific comment just to be a dick, not further the conversation about Max discussing spousal abuse.

And they bring up spousal abuse because of the recent Ray Rice situation, so it isn’t like ESPN or Max are randomly throwing it in as a stop for shits between highlights. It’s a relevant current event.

And even though you’re an asshole who’s trying to lure me into a logic fallacy by making me come up with examples because apparently you require cliff notes for comments, here ya go: Jason Biggs brings up his stupid comments on twitter about airline crash he doesn’t have to comment on in the future, buries himself further by continuing to comment on it.

@Staubachlvr Who told Jason Biggs NOT to bring up the airline crash before he did it repeatedly?

That’s the point, dummy. ESPN TOLD their reporters to STOP bringing it up, and they KEEP bringing it up. Like the GOP and rape.

Jesus H. Christ. Bring up an example that APPLIES and I’ll give you credit. But you can’t come up with one. And maybe focus on the FIRST part of my statement instead of being all reactionary and you’ll see what I contributed to further the discussion….that it’s fucking ridiculous to force a topic that not only is no one discussing at the time, but you’ve been SPECIFICALLY directed NOT to bring up.

@TF Dude it doesn’t matter if I give you zero or a hundred examples because you think you’re right. Great. Go jerk off privately and enjoy yourself. At the end of the day you politicized something that wasn’t political and we’ve had zero discussion in all of this about Max and spousal abuse because of it. There was no need to do it, except for your own childish need to. Go buckfutter yourself.

I gave you one. Apparently you feel someone has to be explicitedly told not to joke about people dying on an airplane. That, and all of your posts, certain label you as what must be a lovely person to talk to. I’m not going to keep listing arguments because A) you’re so intrenched in your point it doesn’t matter, you’ll just find a way to keep denying them and B) it’s a complete waste of time because it doesn’t change the fact you polticised something non political. And this further discussion of not spousal abuse is only being done to obfuscate your original mistake. And C) It doesn’t matter if you’re original point was “right” or not (it was). When people invoke nazis or Hitler for a comparison they’re usually “right”. That isn’t the point. It’s done for a specific inflammatory purpose, as was yours. And it’s unnecessary and detracts from actual conversation. As does yours

Again, Jason Biggs on his own making a poorly timed joke about a recent news item is not the same as a group of people repeatedly trying to force a discussion about a controversial topic when their superiors tell them explicitly to knock it off.

And I think you have to “list” more than one thing for it to even qualify as “listing” things, so you can’t “keep listing arguments” when you never started. And when I never asked for arguments. I asked for ONE example of someone repeatedly violating a superiors order to stop talking about a controversial subject.

Seriously. Not only did he manage to Godwin the argument by comparing the Republicans to the Nazis (I didn’t do that, merely compared how people make comparisons), he than also brought it back to politics. Amazing

How did Max think this was a good idea? Putting aside the directive from his employer, (which is a separate issue and stupid but I expect little else from TWWL), how does one think “Let me tell you about the time my now wife and I took some swings at each other” is ever going to be a good idea.?

How is the fact that they’ve been married for 20 years supposed to excuse that fact that he hit a woman? Many women stay with abusive men for a long time because they’re afraid to leave. Is this man a moron? (<- rhetorical question, he works for ESPN)

Seems a little unfair to judge something someone did 20 years ago and assume he has been doing it repeatedly for two decades. Also it’s not cool for women to hit men either, they were both wrong but clearly have swept it under the rug and have enjoyed a long marriage.

If ESPN doesnt know what they want concerning the situation why do they make it a damn topic on every single show on the station. Even though they always have, ESPN is lookin more like real McAssholes right now

@Gabriel Kitchen: The issue won’t get solved on Sports talk radio. I don’t live in America, but, from what I read from people here through various posts, 95% of the listeners of sports talk radio are the worst kind of people who probably shouldn’t be talking about domestic abuse on a forum where tens of thousand of people are listening in.